COVID-19 San Diego County Update – 15-04-2021

Here’s today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data until April 14th.

Nearly 2.36 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the region and about 2.19 million have been recorded when administered. This number includes both county residents and those working in San Diego County.
Of those vaccinated to date, more than 768,000 county residents, or 28.6% of San Diego residents age 16 and older, are fully immunized.
Overall, more than 1.23 million county residents have received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine. It is 45.9% of those eligible.
The goal is to vaccinate completely 75% of residents aged 16 or over in San Diego County or 2,017,011 people.
Those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in a single dose, which is currently on hold in the county, due to the orientation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration, are added to the total of San Diego fully vaccinated.
The difference between the doses administered and those used in a vaccination represents approximately what is expected to be administered in the next seven days and the doses that are yet to be entered into the registration system.
You can find more information about the distribution of vaccines in the County vaccination board. For vaccination opportunities, visit www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.

The adjusted case rate calculated by the state of San Diego County is currently 6.0 cases per 100,000 residents (as of April 13).
The county remains at the Orange or Tier 3 level under the new state orientation. The California Department of Public Health recently warned that unless there are mitigating circumstances, such as a low vaccine adoption rate, a county will only move to a more restrictive level if hospitalizations increase significantly among vulnerable people, especially between vaccinated people, and both tests. positivity and adjusted case rates show a significant increase in transmission. This is not currently the case in the region.
Currently, the test positive percentage is 2.5%, placing the county at level 3 or Orange level.
The county’s health equity metric, which analyzes test positivity for areas with the lowest health conditions, is 3.0% and is also at the Orange or Tier 3 level.
CDPH evaluates counties weekly. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20th.

Three new outbreaks from the community were confirmed on April 14, all in the restaurant / bar setting.
In the last seven days (April 8 to April 14), 17 outbreaks of the community were confirmed.
The number of community outbreaks stays above the trigger for seven or more days.
An outbreak of community environment is defined as three or more cases of COVID-19 in one environment and in people from different households during the last 14 days.

On April 14, 17,942 tests were reported in the county and the percentage of new positive cases was 2%.
The average percentage of positive cases of 14 days is 1.9%. The target is less than 8.0%.
The average daily test for 7 days is 13,023.

On April 14, 281 cases of COVID-19 were reported in the county. The total for the region is 274,249.
15,047 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
1,667 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Five additional deaths were reported by COVID-19 on April 14th. The total for the region is 3,653.
All of these deaths occurred a few months ago, but were just added to the list after a rigorous review of incorrect or incomplete death certificates that required analysis of patients ’medical records to determine if they were deaths from COVID-19.
Three women and two men died between December 19, 2020 and February 16, 2021.
Of the people who died, three were 80 or older and two were over 60.
Four had underlying medical conditions and one did not.

The most detailed data summaries can be found at The county coronavirus-sd.com website they are updated around 5pm daily.

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